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YellowKing wrote: ↑Wed Aug 30, 2023 8:19 pm Had a bit of a scare just now with a tornado warning. Radar confirmed tornado less than half a mile from my house. Had the family, 2 cats, and a dog huddled in the half bath. Fortunately it fizzled out and never touched down.

YellowKing wrote: ↑Wed Aug 30, 2023 8:19 pm Had a bit of a scare just now with a tornado warning. Radar confirmed tornado less than half a mile from my house. Had the family, 2 cats, and a dog huddled in the half bath. Fortunately it fizzled out and never touched down.

jztemple2 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 30, 2023 9:38 pm

YellowKing wrote: ↑Wed Aug 30, 2023 8:19 pm Had a bit of a scare just now with a tornado warning. Radar confirmed tornado less than half a mile from my house. Had the family, 2 cats, and a dog huddled in the half bath. Fortunately it fizzled out and never touched down.

Where is here? Georgia? South Carolina?

YellowKing wrote: ↑Tue Aug 04, 2020 2:59 pm

jztemple2 wrote:Where are you located?

I'm in Wilmington, so we were about 45 miles from landfall.

Fuel trucks are converging on Port Canaveral to bring much needed help to the Hurricane-ravaged Big Bend area.

And Thursday, with the port back open, there was an assembly line as the trucks are lining up at the pumps.

Seaport Canaveral can handle 600 trucks a day, with each spending just 17 minutes to become fully fueled.

“We’re the largest independent terminal in the state of Florida, not the largest market," said Seaport Canaveral General Manager David Smith. "We act almost like a strategic reserve for the storm."

Smith said 3 million barrels of fuel are held at the port, making it the ideal spot to turn to after hurricanes to help with the problems the Big Bend area is going through now.

Smith said due to the demand from the storm, the port saw 50 extra trucks come through Tuesday and 100 more Wednesday.

And Thursday, the rigs just kept lining up.

Climate change experts warn that extreme weather is becoming increasingly common. July was likely the planet’s warmest month on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Zachary Zobel, assistant scientist and risk associate director for the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Falmouth, said climate change is leading to more “boom or bust” precipitation patterns in the Northeast and most of the country.

“This means that dry periods tend to get longer and when precipitation occurs, it is occurring all at once in the form of extreme events,” Zobel said by email Thursday.

Auroop Ganguly, a Northeastern University professor and director of the Global Resilience Institute in Boston, said extreme shifts in weather are known among climate scientists as “drought-to-deluge” cycles and are expected to become more common as global temperatures rise.

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 28, 2023 5:22 pm What ever happened to the Meal and his family?

jztemple2 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2023 9:45 pm I was reading a write-up on the storm, they note that it's the first time they identified a tropical storm that would intensify to a Cat 4 this early. Usually there is more uncertainty, but the Atlantic out there is very warm and there are almost no conditions that will interfere with the intensification.

Unagi wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 7:02 pm Apparently, most of the spaghetti seems to be keeping Lee in the Atlantic.

Kraken wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 7:07 pm

Unagi wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 7:02 pm Apparently, most of the spaghetti seems to be keeping Lee in the Atlantic.

According to a forecast that I watched last night, if a high pressure trough steers the jet stream as expected we'll be fine; it will deflect Lee out to sea. If that trough is weaker than expected or stays farther west than expected, Lee could make landfall toward the end of next week anywhere between the Carolinas and Nova Scotia. But I hope that was just a meteorologist looking for drama.

Kraken wrote: ↑Fri Sep 08, 2023 1:51 am We're doing our annual apple-picking/winery expedition this Saturday. The forecast is looking a little rainier than it was when we committed. Today Wife asked if we should postpone to next weekend. Uh, there's a small chance of hurricanes then, so let's go with the scattered thunderstorms. I reserved a hightop under the roofed patio at the winery, so unless the weather turns violent we WILL drink wine.